Improvement in horizontal baling-presses



UNITE-D1 STATE-s JOHN n. winnen, or PLEASANT rLAIns, NnWYonx.

IMPROVEMENT "INRHRIZONTAL' BALlNG-IPRESSES." i

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,591, dated May 2, 1865.

'T0 a/ZZ whom it may con/cern.; l Be it known that I, J. D. WILBER, of Pleasant Plains, in the county 'of Duchess and State of New York, have invented `a new and Improved Horizontal Baling- Press; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled inthe art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this 'speciflcation, iu which-4 v Figure 1 is a horizontal section of my invention, taken in the line x x, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a side sectional view of the same, taken in the line y y, Fig. l.; Fig. 3, an end view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new and improved baling-press of that class inwhich two horizontal press-boxes are employed, in order that the material to be compressed and baled may be placed in one press-box while the material which was previously placed in the other pressbox is being compressed within it.

` The invention consists in using in connection with two press-boxesa single follower operated by four screws, and having the press-` boxes provided with slots and openings and with notched doors, all arranged as hereinafter fully shown and described, whereby it is believed that several advantages are obtained over ordinary presses of the same class, as herein set forth. l

A represents an oblong quadrilateral box, "which may be of any suitable dimensions, and is placed in ahorizontal position. The box A is placed between two heads, a a, which are of greater area than a transverse section of the box, and these heads form bearings for four screws, B, which are at the outer side of the box, two being above and two below it. Each side of the box A, near each end, is provided with a door, C, the edges of which, opposite the hinged edge or side, are notched, as shown at bin Fig. 2, and the bottom of the box A has an oblong slot, c, made centrally in it, extending nearly its whole length, as clearly shown in Fig. l. The top of the box has a similar slot, d, made in it, and also a central opening, e. tShown in Fig. 2.)

D represents the follower (one only being two press-boxes, the space at each side of the follower constituting one. (See Figs. 1 and 2.) y This follower is operated by the four screws B, the latter passing through female threads in bars E, one above and the other below the press-box, `and the follower being connected to them by rods F F,.which are attached cen` l trally to the upper and lower ends of the folone end ofthe box A and then toward the i other end,.or, in otherwords, is moved into one press-box and then into the other, the slots i y c d admitting of the rods F working in the rey quired direction, while the opening e admits of either press-box being filled, no doors for that purpose being required, as the follower D passes the outer end of said opening over Veach press-box before the material in them is` subjected to muchpressure. By this arrangement the pressing mechanism is rendered very compact, and the follower is retained in proper position by the four screws, the latter preventing the former from getting out of a rightangular position relatively with the. pressboxes, thereby insuring a perfect operation of the followerat all timesa result not attained with those presses provided with a `single` screw. The doors C of the press-boxes are hinged at their innersides or edges and notched y at their outer edges, as shown in Fig. 2. These notches Z1 (previously alluded to) are for the insertion of the ends of the hoop, by which the bales are bound. By means of these notches the ends of the hoop may be inserted into the material within the press-boxes before itis much compressed, and will be held firmly when the material is' compressed, thereby avoiding the difficulty at present experienced in securing one end of the hoops before bending them around and adjusting them to the bale. `After the material is co1npressed,it is too compact to admit of the ends of the hoop being thrust into y it; but my improvement, it will be seen, admits of the ends of the hoops being readily thrust into the loose material before any sensible degree of compression has been effected,

employed) foi* the box which virtually `is y 2. The opening e, employed in the described combination with and in relation to the follower D, and slots c and d, to admit of the introduoi tion of the material into the press-boxes without the use of doors, as explained.

JOHN D. XVILBER.

'XVitn esses:

M. M. LIVINGSTON, C. L. TorLIFiF. 

